Xu Hong's mansion was in the area where Liu Chengfeng was assassinated. After all, the Xu family was once a prominent family. Although Xu Hong was not too high, he only entered the cabinet as a juren and listened to the task, his family was not bad.
The huge house is sandwiched with countless high walls and deep courtyards, which makes it look particularly quiet...
The big stone lions in front of the door stood on the left and right sides. In the past few days, the Xu family has been very calm, calm and unreasonable. Only on this street, there were suddenly many peddlers or pedestrians. However, the Xu family's concierge was quite taboo to these unfamiliar uninvited guests. There was nothing unusual about the entire Xu family's mansion except for normal entry and exit.
In fact, on the day when Duke Lian was assassinated, the master ordered everyone in the mansion to be safe. Anyone who dared to make any noise at this time must be beaten to death.
Of course, the people in the mansion dare not disobey the words, and many people found that there were countless eyes staring at the house quietly, which made people creepy.
It was already afternoon, and suddenly, horse hooves and messy footsteps disturbed the calmness of the area. Then, teams of people appeared, flying fish suits and embroidered spring swords, and they were all murderous, and soon surrounded the Xu family's house.
Liu Chengfeng got out of the carriage, glanced at the house, and put his hands behind his back, but he just said two words coldly: "Breaking the door!"
A group of lieutenants began to bump into the door under the leadership of the military officer. Of course, the gatekeeper inside could hear such a big noise. He was so scared that his face looked like earth and shivered. It was not open to the door, but if he didn't open the door, it was not open. If he didn't open the door, he would knock the door open sooner or later, but if it opened, he would not know what was inside.
The sound of smashing the door outside became more and more urgent. The Xu Mansion was already in chaos. The gatekeeper had to open the door. As soon as the door opened, the gatekeeper was knocked away by the huge force outside. Then dozens of lieutenants rushed in.
Liu Chengfeng glanced at the house with his hands behind his back. There were several doors inside. It was so deep that there was no end. Liu Chengfeng glanced at the doorman who had fallen into a mess and asked, "Is your master Xu Hong here?"
The concierge was obviously frightened. He seemed to be in a state of dismay and quickly said, "I am in the cabinet and I am in the cabinet at this time every day."
Liu Chengfeng stopped saying anything and ordered his left and right, "Come on, search for me, and dig three feet into the ground to pull out the assassins."
"Assassin? What kind of assassin?" The concierge understood that these people were wearing the clothing of Jinyiwei, and claimed that they would take what assassin, this...
The lieutenants rushed into the mansion without hesitation.
The manager of this mansion came over and looked for Liu Chengfeng with a pale face. He said, "Sir... I don't know what happened. I don't know what happened. Is the villain... Don't disturb my family."
However, Liu Chengfeng pointed to the other side of the courtyard and asked, "What's going on with that courtyard? Are there anyone here?"
The manager was frightened when he heard the word "Apartment" and his face turned pale. Qi Qiai Ai said, "This... this... there is nothing in the other courtyard. Sir... Sir, my master is not at home now. Can you wait for my master to come back..."
Liu Chengfeng knew that the manager seemed to know something, and smiled coldly, saying, "I'm afraid it's too late. Gao Qiang, go and follow me to the villa to have a look."
The manager was so scared that his face looked like a slut, and he suddenly collapsed on the ground.
When you arrive at the villa, you have to go out of the middle gate and walk around an alley. It seems very quiet and silent. A group of lieutenants rushed in and started searching. They are all good players. After a while, someone inquired about the news and said that there were only two people in the courtyard, except for one woman and an old woman. Liu Chengfeng was confused when he heard it. A woman? An old woman? He originally imagined that there must be something hidden in this villa. Even if the assassins had been moved, they should have stayed here at least. Liu Chengfeng ordered: "Search carefully and search."
Liu Chengfeng’s suspicion was not wrong. Soon, someone found something strange in the flowerbed in this yard.
Liu Chengfeng followed the captain to the flower garden. It was the hot summer day, and the orchids planted here were planted. It was the season of blooming. When someone opened these blooming flowers and looked carefully, Liu Chengfeng obviously found that after the flowers blocked them, there were many chaotic footprints.
Someone specially used a ruler to measure the footprints. Most of the footprints were more than five inches. In this era, women mostly tied their feet, so their feet were particularly small. Only the footprints of more than five inches could be men. But if there were no male servants here, there would be so many, nor so messy. After all, servants dare not act rashly. Looking at these orchids, Liu Chengfeng knew that the master must have carefully conditioned them. Which servant dared to trample on the flowerbed that his master liked?
But if visitors seemed to be unable to walk into the flower garden, the only explanation is that before that, there were people gathered here, with a large number of people, and there were more than a dozen people. The assassins did come in from the roof here, avoiding the lieutenant and the inquisition who came from all directions at that time, and then hid here for a while before leaving quietly.
In other words, whether these assassins were instructed by Xu Hong or not, they must have at least had an indissoluble bond, and it is even very likely that all of this was Xu Hong's plan.
These footprints were from a few days ago, but were later covered by blooming flowers. If it weren't for this key search, I'm afraid I wouldn't have found it. Liu Chengfeng said coldly: "Continue to search to see if there are any cellars, secret doors, and these assassins are most likely in this villa."
With the gains, everyone couldn't help but cheer up and began to search around again.
Xu Hong came in with a stack of memorials. His face looked very bad. He just handed the news outside, saying that the Jinyiwei had surrounded his house. He had a bad premonition early in the morning, because the uninvited guests outside the house were getting bigger and bigger, and even went to the office to work by himself. Someone seemed to be following him. His eyelids were still leaping around recently. Who knew that something was wrong?
Putting down a stack of memorials, Xu Hong immediately saluted to the three cabinet masters sitting in the cabinet and said to Liu Jian: "Mr. Liu."
Liu Jian, who was preparing for a ticket, was called out by Xu Hong, then looked up, looked at Xu Hong, and said, "Jingzhi, is there anything wrong? Could it be that something happened?"
Xu Hong said with a bitter face: "No, the official is here to take leave."
"Take a leave?" Liu Jian frowned. Now the emperor's health is obviously much worse, so many things have to be handled by the cabinet. The cabinet is already busy and doesn't touch the ground. To put it bluntly, everyone feels indifferent to having tea at noon, and now they still feel that they are too lazy to clone. Unexpectedly, Xu Hong is here to take leave. There are only so many people in the cabinet. The cabinet ministers have something to do, and the people below also perform their duties. Leaving one person is equivalent to adding a share of the burden to others. So Liu Jian seemed very disgusted with the matter of taking leave. He said slowly: "Why do you want to take a leave?"
Xu Hong said: "Xiaoguan's house is surrounded by Jinyiwei."
After saying this, even Xie Qian and Li Dongyang raised their eyes from the memorial that was about to be drafted. Xie Qian said coldly: "I'm surrounded? What does this mean? Xu Hong, what did you do?"
Although Liu Jian didn't say anything, anger clearly flashed across his face. Xu Hong was just an eighth-rank official. By rank, he could only be considered an optional role. Although in the cabinet, there was basically not much power, and he was only responsible for assisting the cabinet ministers in his work. But even though that is the case, Xu Hong was also doing it in the cabinet. To put it bluntly, beating a dog depends on the owner. The Jinyiwei took it as soon as he said, and he wanted to beat him or kill him, and ran to disturb his family. What is the reason?
After hearing Xie Qian's question, Xu Hong hurriedly said, "No, no, the lower official has always been obedient and enters the cabinet office on time every day. What can he do? Most of the time... it was because Xiaguan's house was just closer to the place where Duke Lian was assassinated. In addition... In addition, Xiaguan's brother had some grudges with Duke Lian, so..."
Pa... When he said this, Xie Qian couldn't help but smile coldly and said, "What do you have to do with you if your brother made a mistake? Besides, the emperor once said that although Yuan Yi was wrong, he was also a meritorious minister. After he committed suicide, His Majesty made it clear that this person has made great contributions to the court, worked hard and worked hard to be diligent in the king's order. If it weren't for him, Songjiang's water conservancy was still decayed. What was Liu Chengfeng's purpose for killing all the people?"
Xu Hong was just a little cautious and deliberately carried his brother out, giving people the image of Liu Chengfeng revenge in the name of catching an assassin. The three great scholars of the cabinet were also angry at this time. In fact, although Xu Guan was dead, his official reputation has always been good. The evaluation given to him in the Shilin area was that although he had made any achievements, his achievements were greater than his faults. Now that the Jinyiwei did this, it would be too much to deceive others.
Liu Jian looked at Li Dongyang and said, "Binzhi, what do you think? Do the cabinet have to come forward directly on this matter?"
Li Dongyang was silent for a moment, then said, "Forget it, if the cabinet comes forward now, it would be a bit of a big deal. Why not do this? Let Xu Hong go back first and see what the Jinyiwei wants to do. If it is really for the assassin, then that would be fine. But if the public revenge is avenged, the cabinet will definitely not agree if this Shilin Qing's proposal does not agree."
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Chapter 2: Delivered, my brother-in-law came and went to pick up the plane.
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